Ubuntu12.0 install 4 Dell D620 wireless NIC Driver

Ubuntu12.0 4 Dell D620 wireless network card driver installed in an old book these two days Ubuntu12.04, found that wireless network card is not available, Google, du Niang cannot find the driver, however, we found a common method for installing a wireless network card in linux. We used ndiswrapper to virtualize windows APIs on the linux platform, and then used a driver in windows to drive the network card. There are many articles about this method on the Internet. After a long time, I finally succeeded. Now I want to record the installation process. 1. Preparation 1. download the latest ndiswrapper package, and prepare 2. Prepare the win driver for the wireless network card and find the corresponding inf and sys files. Here are bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys (xp supported ). Note: If the driver is in exe or cab format, use the zip or cabextract tool to unbind it and find the corresponding file. Ii. Install ndiswrapper 1. decompress the installation package tar zxvf ndiswrapper-1.58rcl.tar.gz 2. enter the decompressed folder cd ndiswrapper-1.58rcl 3. compile make 4. install make install 3. install the wireless NIC Driver 1. enter the driver directory, that is, the bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys directories ndiswrapper-I bcmwl5.inf 2. check whether ndiswrapper-l is installed on the driver. write the configuration file ndiswrapper-m ndiswrapper-ma ndiswrapper-mi 4. load Module modprobe ndiswrapper Note: If you encounter "FATAL: Module ndiswrapper notfound", http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/ Dow Nload ndiswrapper and then make-> make install Last reboot your computer, you will see Wireless LED blinking. You secess! Congratulation! 4. Restart to use the wireless network.